TY - JOUR
AU1 - Saunders, Ben
AB - J Value Inquiry (2010) 44:553–556 DOI 10.1007/s10790-010-9231-3 BOOK REVIEW Exeter, England: Imprint Academic, 2005, 269 pp. (indexed), ISBN 978-1845400255, $34.90 (Pb) Ben Saunders Published online: 19 May 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 The use of lotteries goes back at least to the ancient Greeks and Biblical times, although their justification is uncertain. Nowadays the idea that drawing lots could be a way of divining God’s will, if that is what the ancients thought, is likely to meet with skepticism – indeed, Goodwin shows that this practice was already controversial as early as Thomas Gataker’s 1619 treatise Of the Nature and Use of Lots (pp. 167–168). Nonetheless, random procedures have been used to allocate everything from life-saving medical treatment and military service to Green Cards and tickets for the Oscars. Sometimes the use of lotteries has been widely accepted as an appropriate way of making difficult decisions, while in other instances – as in the 2008 case of allocating school places in Brighton & Hove, England – it has resulted in public outcry. Surprisingly, despite their widespread use and popular currency, there has been little sustained attention devoted to lotteries by philosophers and political theorists, with Barbara Goodwin’s book, 
TI - Barbara Goodwin, Justice by Lottery
JF - The Journal of Value Inquiry
DO - 10.1007/s10790-010-9231-3
DA - 2010-05-19
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/barbara-goodwin-justice-by-lottery-6wUS8U7ouE
SP - 553
EP - 556
VL - 44
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -